The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-09-22
Time passed on.

train.
Time passed on.
At first they were not very hungry
Bnd did not think it advisable to devour
any of their number, but at last starva-
ton overpowered good resolutions and
reason; so one after another of the
younger and weaker of the band yielded
to the frenzied and ADMINISTRATION frag-
ment of the once buoyant and self-reli-
ant company.
At last one night, just as the moon
clumb the picturesque step-ladder of
stars and looked down upon the wild
and beautiful picture of gloriied noun
tain and somber valley, as the last col
ored loiterer had returned from the
distant revival, softly humming to him
self. while pair of Plymouth rocks
sleepily peered from the pockets of his
army overcoat into the glorious night,
as the ever-regretful pine Of the Old
North State gave back to the night wind
q hopeless whisper in answer to
it's light caress, the last of the lusty rob-
bers yielded to long exposure, famine
and the sharp, remOrseless tooth of time.
His latest futtering breath went out
upon the bosom of the mountain zephyr
as a shrill whistle sounded from beyond
the ''trussel," and in less than two
hours, almost before his body had be-
come cold and rigid in death, the train
with muffled rumble and grumble and
roar, with mad shrek and hot box,
passed him in its resistless flight.
So you see, MIR. White, that this is no
place to rob trains. It is too uncertain.
This is good place for health, but it
is no place to rob trains. l can tell you
where there are some good, robust
chickens, or at least where they were
an hour ago; but until the road here has
more respect for its timetable, would
not advise a train-rObber in whom felt
an interest to come here.
know that at times your dornick
farm will look bleak and desolate to
you, and you will madly yearn for
more soil, but it is better than the
enervating toll of sitting night after
night in a cold culvert, wearing set of
false whiskers, size too large for you.
and waiting for train that may never
come.
That is not all, friend White. Train
robbing is not now what it was fifteen
or twenty years ago. More people go
''heeled' now than formerly. And
those who do not go heeled have no
money.
In riding through Nebraska some
years ago, | was awakened one night
while in an upper berth by a train rob-
Der who was a total stranger to me.
He did not move in our set. His weapon
wObbled so, owing to his excitement,
that l caught hold of it to keep it
steady, and also in such position that
if it happened to get itself discharged
the contents would 60 through medical
student who occupied the lower berth.
The train robber seemed to think |
wanted to steal his nice new revolver,
which he had no doubt secured by pro-
curing two fresh subscribers for a child's
paper, and so heresisted. We struggled
there for half an hour, | presume, be-
fore 1 succeeded in robbing him.
A band of robbers. it is said, tried to
rob train bound north from Florida
three years ago, and though they met
with some resistance that was about all
they did meet with.
One robber got a package of flea
powder, a set of false teeth and a chest
nut bell.
Another secured a white vest, buff
falo overcoat and small wet alligator.
He did not know that he had secured
the alligator until two hours afterward,
when look of pain came over his face,
snd one of his companions removed
him from the small alligator which, it
seems, had become very much attached
to the robber by means of the brow of
his pants
(The mans pants mean.)
Another got a diary for '73, an audo-
phone and truss.
Still another got cigar case, a spec
tacle case and a case of smallpox.